June 4-8, 2012 Dubrovnik, Croatia

2012 JVC-14 / EVC-12 / AMDVG-11 / CroSloVM-19 2nd Annoucement JVC 14 EVC 12 AMDVG 11 CROSLOVM 19 June 4-8, 2012 Dubrovnik, Croatia 14th Joint Vacuum Conference 12th European Vacuum Conference 11th Annual Meeting of the German Vacuum Society 19th Croatian - Slovenian Vacuum Meeting INVITATION The organizers cordially invite you to the largest vacuum-related meeting in Europe in 2012 - a quadruple JVC-14 / EVC-12 / AMDVG-11 / CroSloVM-19 meeting. The four events are merged together into a single conference, with a unified program and lectures, and one registration for them all. Dubrovnik, a traditional meeting place for the international cooperation offers an excellent and stimulating environment for the conference of high scientific merit which will attract participants from all over Europe. The venue of the conference, a 5 stars hotel Rixos Libertas, provides excellent facilities for the smooth presentation of the conference's scientific content, as well as for the accompanying exhibition of vacuum equipment and pertinent publications. A world-renowned scientists will present plenary lectures, a number of internationally acknowledged researchers will be invited speakers (http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/programme.php), and much more oral and poster contributions will provide insight into the state-of-the-art of science and technology in the fields powerfully affecting the way how we live and produce. For the scientists, researchers, engineers, teachers and students interested or active in any of the vacuum-related topics, the JVC-14 / EVC-12 / AMDVG-11 / CroSloVM- 19 meeting at Dubrovnik is place to be in early June 2012. SCOPE http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/general-information-scope.php LANGUAGE: English The conference will cover all vacuum-related fields, corresponding to the established or emerging scientific divisions of the IUVSTA: - Applied Surface Science - Nanometer Structures - Surface Engineering - Thin Film - Electronic Materials & Processing - Plasma Science & Technique - Surface Science - Vacuum Science & Technology - Biointerfaces HONORARY CHAIRS Three distinguished world-renowned scientists are honorary chairs of the Conference: Dr Marie-Genevieve Barthes-Labrousse Université Paris-Sud 11, France Professor Hans Oechsner Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Professor Ivo Šlaus University of Zagreb, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia A founder and the EVC-series Chair is a special Guest of Honour of the Conference: Professor John S. Colligon Dalton Research Institute Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

CONFERENCE CHAIR Dr. Nikola Radić Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Richard Berndt, Germany Jean Louis Bersier, ITER, France Attila Csik, Hungary Jürgen Fassbender, Germany Tomáš Gronych, Czech Republic Joe Herbert, UK, Co-chair Monika Jenko, Slovenia Stefan Luby, Slovakia Karel Mašek, Czech Republic Slobodan Milošević, Croatia, Co-chair Miran Mozetič, Slovenia László Óvári, Hungary Branko Pivac, Croatia Christian Teichert, Austria Marian Vesely, Slovakia Wolfgang Werner, Austria Lars Westerberg, Sweden Martin Wüest, Switzerland INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sándor Bohátka, Hungary Miha Čekada, Slovenia Christoph Eisenmenger-Sittner, Austria Pavel Hedbávný, Czech Republic Manfed Leisch, Austria Ognjen Milat, Croatia Jaroslav Pavlík, Czech Republic Béla Pécz, Hungary Nikola Radić, Croatia, Chair Frank Richter, Germany Peter Siffalovic, Slovakia Alenka Vesel, Slovenia Andrey Vincze, Slovakia Hrvoje Zorc, Croatia LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ivana Capan, Chair Iva Bogdanović Radović Maja Buljan Pavo Dubček Martin Lončarić Krešimir Salamon Željko Skoko PROGRAMME http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/programme.php Five Plenary lectures by world-renowned scientists, and sixteen Invited talks by distinguished researchers in the field of vacuum-related research will be the highlights of the Conference. A Lecture of Prof.Dr. Karl Leo - the Rudolf Jaeckel Prize laureate - will be presented at the Conference, as well. A number of oral presentations on "hot topics", and even more posters on all topics covered by the conference scope will be presented. PLENARY LECTURES http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/programme.php Five Plenary lectures on frontier research topics are: Prof. Massimo Altarelli, European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg, Germany Ultrafast X-ray Science: the European XFEL Project Prof. László Forró, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland Nanostructures for applications Prof. Ulrich Heinzmann, Universität Bielefeld, Germany Angle-, spin-, phase- and attosecond time resolved photoemission experiments Prof. Lars Hultman, Linköping University, Sweden Self-organized Nanostructuring in Hard Nitride Coatings Prof. David N. Ruzic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Lithium Walls: Making Fusion Feasible

INVITED LECTURES http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/programme.php Sixteen Invited talks will cover all topics embedded into nine IUVSTA scientific divisions: Hynek Biederman, Prague, Czech Republic Nanocomposite and Nanostructured Films with Plasma Polymers Ante Bilušić, Split, Croatia Termoelectric JVC-14 Properties / EVC-12 / of AMDVG-11 Quasicrystals / CroSloVM-19 Jaroslav Bruncko, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Pulsed laser deposition of thin films on actively cooled substrates László Deák, Szeged, Hungary Formation, stability and chemical reactivity of atomically thin layers František Fendrych, Prague, Czech Republic Unique linear antennas high frequency pulsed microwave plasma enhanced CVD system: route towards large area, low temperature, low pressure nanodiamond films growth Irina Graur, Marseille, France State-of-the-Art Modeling in the Transition Region Alfredo Juan, Bahía Blanca, Argentina Carbon monoxide adsorption and dissociation on K-Promoted β-mo2c Surfaces. Ab-initio study Ita Junkar, Ljubljana, Slovenia Hemocompatible vascular implants- the plasma prospective Joachim Krenn, Graz, Austria Nano-photonics with plasmonic wires Nikša Krstulović, Zagreb, Croatia Laser Produced Plasmas and Applications in Materials Processing Jörg Kröger, Ilmenau, Germany Investigations into the spin-dependent conductance of single-atom junctions with a scanning tunnelling microscope Jürgen Lindner, Duisburg, Germany Magnetism at the nanoscale: Importance of Surfaces and Interfaces Tivadar Lohner, Budapest, Hungary Spectroellipsometric and ion beam analytical investigation of thin films deposited by various methods Stefan Luby, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Iron oxide nanoparticle gas sensors Peter Puschnig, Leoben, Austria Growth and electronic structure of organic molecular layers studied by density functional theory Mauro Taborelli, Geneva, Switzerland Thin film coatings for secondary electron emission mitigation in particle accelerators IUVSTA-ELSEVIER STUDENT AWARD http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/awards.php The IUVSTA-Elsevier Student Award scheme is designed to give partial financial support to postgraduate research students within seven years of obtaining their first degree at the start of the conference to help them to attend IUVSTA meetings and conferences at which they are presenting a paper. The students should reside and study in one of the developing countries that are eligible for the Research4Life program, as listed on http://www.research4life.org/institutions.html Please find some more details on http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/awards.php

CALL FOR ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATION http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/call-for-papers.php Scientists and engineers working in the fields of vacuum-related research are encouraged to submit the abstract of their contributions. Abstract submission is available on-line and the deadline is 5th of March 2012. Abstracts will be evaluated by the Programme Committee and authors will be notified on the acceptance of their abstracts by 5 April 2012. Abstracts of the conference will be printed in the BOOK OF ABSTRACTS AND PROGRAMME OF JVC-14/EVC-12/AMDVG-11/CroSloVM-19. Official language of the conference and papers is English. Formal requirements of the abstract: JVC-14 / EVC-12 / AMDVG-11 / CroSloVM-19 You are requested to prepare a RTF document, A4 format, using the abstract template given here: TITLE (capital letters, Times New Roman, bold, 14pt, centered ) 1 2 1 Author, Author2, Author3 (12pt, bold, italic, presenting author is underlined) 1 Affiliation, Full Address of Author 1, 3 (12pt, italic) 2 Affiliation, Full Address of Author 2 (12pt, italic) Corresponding author: cor.author@e-mail.address (12pt) Text in MS Word should be written in English on page format A4 (297 210mm), single line spacing, Times New Roman, letter size 12pts and justified. Abstract should not exceed 300 words excluding title, authors and affiliation. Leave margin of 2.5 cm on each side. It should contain the title of paper, author(s), affiliation, postal address, e-mail address of the corresponding author, and main text. The title should be written in capitals (14pts) and separated by one blank line from the authors' names (bold in Italic style) and affiliation (that should be in Italic style), with the presenting author's name underlined. One blank line spacing is between the e-mail address and the main text. Figures, tables or references should not be included in the abstract. Please note that each registered participant may present only one oral or poster presentation, but he/she can be a co-author in other registered participant's presentation. DEADLINES http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/important-dates.php A few deadlines should be observed in order to successfully/ actively participate at the conference Abstract submission 05.03.2012 Acceptance notification 05.04.2012 Early registration and payment 20.04.2012 Early hotel reservation 20.03.2012 rd 3 announcement (with final program) 21.05.2012 Conference starts 04.06.2012 Conference papers submission 08.06.2012 REGISTRATION http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/registration.php Registration is kindly requested from all participants at the Conference. Please open the online Registration form on the conference website, fill the mandatory fields, and submit it to the organizers. Please bear in mind that your CONFERENCE REGISTRATION is final and valid only after the registration fee has been paid.

REGISTRATION FEE for the CONFERENCE http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/conference-fee.php Registration fee of participants includes: - admission to the Scientific Sessions and Exhibition - Book of Abstracts and Programme of the Conference JVC-14 / EVC-12 / AMDVG-11 / CroSloVM-19 - welcome party, coffee breaks, conference excursion and banquet Registration fee of accompanying persons includes: - welcome party, conference excursion and banquet LOCATION VENUE http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/location-venue.php The Conference will be held at Dubrovnik - a city of art, history and culture at the crossroads of civilizations. This 'Pearl of the Adriatic' is situated in the southernmost part of Croatia. During its 450 years of independency the Republic of Dubrovnik had a very strong maritime force of more then 500 ships and was a flourishing trade centre. Although severely damaged by an earthquake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains. UNESCO recognized the rich cultural heritage and entered the ancient city into its World's Heritage List. ACCOMMODATION http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/accommodation.php Two hotels are selected by the organizers for the accommodation of Conference participants - HOTEL LIBERTAS RIXOS ***** and HOTEL LERO ****. Please note that the Early hotel reservation deadline is 20.03.2012, which guarantees the accommodation in these two hotels. By a special agreement with the hotel Libertas Rixos, the organizers offer free lunch for those registered participants of the conference, who are accommodated in Hotel Rixos Libertas during the conference. HOTEL LIBERTAS RIXOS *****, Dubrovnik www.rixos.com Rates per person / per day in EUR (Local Tax:1,00 EUR) Double room - per person:85,00 EUR Double room single use-per person:140,00 EUR Local Tax:1,00 EUR HOTEL LERO****, Dubrovnik www.hotel-lero.hr Rates per person / per day in EUR: Double room - per person:59,00 EUR Double room single use-per person:85,00 EUR Local Tax:1,00 EUR PARTICIPANT Regular Students* Accompanying person EARLY REGISTRATION until 20 April 2012 440 300 200 LATE REGISTRATION after 20 April 2012 490 350 200 * Students should enclose a letter from their university or supervisor confirming their status. EXHIBITION, ADVERTISEMENT AND SPONSORSHIP http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/general-information-exhibition.php Manufacturers of the measuring instruments, vacuum pumps, complete systems and components used in vacuum-related science and industry are invited to exhibit their products and promotion materials at the JVC-14 / EVC-12 / AMDVG-11 / CroSloVM-19. Various options of advertisements and sponsorship are also offered. The JVC-14 / EVC-12 / AMDVG-11 / CroSloVM-19 is the biggest event for the vacuum-related research and development in Europe in 2012. The venue of the conference is Hotel Rixos Libertas, Dubrovnik. The conference starts on Monday morning and will be closed about noon on Friday. Exhibition stands are to be set up on Sunday. Exhibition The exhibition area is in the centre of the conference, in the foyer in front of the lecture rooms. 2 Exhibition boots are accommodated within the total area of 180m. The two types of standard boot (build up stand) are available: A-type (2m x 3m), and B-type (3m x 3m). A table and chairs as well as 230 V / 50 Hz are included.

Advertisement - You can advertise your products in the Book of Abstracts and Programme of the Conference (A4 format) which is given to all participants. - Your logo can be shown on the main page of the conference website - Your logo can be printed on the conference bag - Your leaflet can be planted in conference bag. Sponsorship You are kindly JVC-14 requested / EVC-12 / to AMDVG-11 sponsor / CroSloVM-19 - Welcome party (Sunday Evening) - Conference banquet (after conference excursion) - Coffee break - Student awards Much more details are available at You are welcome at the conference. Please register your company using the Registration Form for Exhibition, Advertisement and Sponsoring. For more information please contact the Conference Office office@jvc-evc-2012.com or the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee. PROCEEDINGS http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/proceedings.php The PROCEEDINGS OF JVC-14/EVC-12/AMDVG-11/CroSloVM-19 will be published as a special (but consecutively numbered) issue of the journal VACUUM. Approximately forty papers will be published in the Proceedings issue. There is no page limitation to the contributions and there are no page charges. The submissions to the proceedings will be peer reviewed according to procedure for the regular journal papers. On-line submission via Elsevier's Editorial System (EES) at required. The first manuscript is expected to be submitted no earlier than 1 May 2012. The submission deadline of first draft is 8 June 2012. The final date of acceptance (after review and revise) in EES is 31 December 2012. A full Author Information Pack is available at: http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/general-information-exhibition.php http://ees.elsevier.com/vac/ http:// www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/357/authorinstructions For your information, the average temperature range in June is 19-25 C with monthly precipitation of about 50 mm - thus a very pleasant part of the year in Dubrovnik. We look forward to meeting you in Dubrovnik next year. Best regards, Nikola Radić, Conference Chair Slobodan Milošević, CVS president is Organized by: Main sponsor: Sponsors: Contacts Contact person Co-organized by: www.jvc-evc-2012.com info@jvc-evc-2012.com Conference office office@jvc-evc-2012.com Nikola Radić Rudjer Boskovic Institute Bijenicka 54, P.O.Box 180 HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia Phone: +385-1-4680-224 Fax: +385-1-4680-114 E-mail: radic@irb.hr